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About Vanguard Health Care ETF
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Inception date
Jan 26, 2004
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Distributes
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Tax on distributions
Qualified dividends
Primary advisor
The Vanguard Group, Inc.
Distributor
Vanguard Marketing Corp.
The fund offers broad exposure to healthcare companies in the US. It holds firms that stretch across multiple industries from the broadly defined healthcare space. This includes healthcare provider and services companies, healthcare equipment and supplies manufacturers and distributors, healthcare technology firms, and companies involved in the research, development, production, and marketing of pharmaceuticals and biotech products. The funds large basket stems from its total market universe. Holdings are weighted by market capitalization and are diversified by applying limits on regulated investment companies, such that no group entity exceeds 25% of the index weight and the aggregate weight of issuers with over 5% weight in the index are capped at 50% of the portfolio. The index is rebalanced quarterly.
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Returns
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Health Technology
Health Services
Stocks97.64%
Health Technology75.83%
Health Services16.38%
Distribution Services2.63%
Retail Trade0.97%
Technology Services0.83%
Commercial Services0.41%
Process Industries0.28%
Finance0.27%
Electronic Technology0.02%
Transportation0.01%
Bonds, Cash & Other2.36%
Cash2.36%
Miscellaneous0.00%
Stock breakdown by region
North America100.00%
Latin America0.00%
Europe0.00%
Asia0.00%
Africa0.00%
Middle East0.00%
Oceania0.00%
Top 10 holdings
Dividends
Dividend payout history